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	Hello and welcome to the podcast of the Low Seaters for the 3rd of January 2021, I'm joined by Harry.
	Hello there.
	And today we're going to be talking about Joe Rogan's Twitter exodus, Sir Tony Blair and the dishonest list, and also leftists looking to remove Joe Biden.
	And they're finally getting to the position of understanding that, yeah, the old man ain't really working no more.
	You seem to have a little bit of buyer's remorse.
	So some things to mention first on the website, some stuff that went up over the weekend.
	First thing here, being an article from Hugo, why the housing crisis is happening.
	I believe this one's free, so you can go check that out at littleseas.com without having to sign up.
	If we go to the next one, we have contemplations that went up over the weekend, which is, as you can see here, nihilism, morality, and postmodernism.
	So I believe that's between, I assume it's Josh, and I don't know who else he did it with.
	That would be Thomas.
	There we are.
	So go and check that out.
	And then the next one being Epochs, which is Theseus.
	So this is Carl and Bo talking to you all about Theseus.
	This is the last thing Carl did before he went off.
	So if you're missing your history content, that's where it is.
	And of course, if you want to find out what else we're doing, getter.com.
	It feels like a bit of a weird plug in the middle of the fact that we're going to do a topic on them.
	It's Lotus Eaters, though.
	Lotus Eaters underscore com being the at for Lotus Eaters there to find out what's coming out and what we're doing.
	All the rest of it.
	It's all synergistic content.
	That's what we're doing right here.
	Everything moves together.
	Without further ado, let's get into the cynicism.
	Joe Rogan has decided to sort of lead a Twitter exodus, and if we get this up, this is him now on Getter.
	Verified account there, as you can see.
	Just in case S over at Twitter gets even dumber, I'm here now as well.
	Rejoice!
	And 8,000 reposts, 43,000 likes on his Getter post there.
	I've not seen the rejoice part.
	That really does make it seem like some kind of biblical statement, doesn't it?
	Rejoice, my fellows!
	We can now say things about the vaccine that we cannot elsewhere.
	And that we certainly can't right now, sadly.
	No, I don't even know who he was talking about the vaccine in his interview.
	So if you don't know what this is about, if we go to the next link, you can see a very short segment of the interview Joe had.
	So this is Joe Rogan talking to...
	How do you say his name?
	Robert Malone.
	Robert Malone.
	He's giving an interview with Joe, and they talk about various things.
	I didn't have time to watch the whole thing because it's ages.
	It's not banned on Spotify, which is interesting.
	Spotify does...
	I've not listened to the Robert Malone interview yet, but I have listened to the Peter McCullough interview, which was similarly controversial, not on YouTube.
	And Joe mentioned as part of it that Spotify don't have the same guidelines that YouTube do, which allows them to have...
	Well, I mean, as soon as Joe Rogan was signed up with Spotify, they had a few of the internal people going like, No, no, we can't have Joe Rogan on our platform.
	But hopefully Spotify have learned the lesson that, no, the free and open discussion is what matters because then the marketplace of ideas and all that.
	And nothing else.
	It makes them look good.
	Yeah.
	So as we have here, Lawrence Fox taking a short clip in which Dr.
	Malone talks about, was it mass psychosis?
	Mass formation psychosis, as he labels it.
	And, well, this interview got banned on YouTube and the previous one, as you mentioned.
	We don't want people hearing from the guy who helped to invent mRNA.
	And this is someone responding here whose tweet blew up.
	I know I watched Joe Rogan before, then YouTube removed Joe Rogan's interview with Dr.
	Malone.
	Now I 100% have to find it and watch it.
	I believe it got, like, whatever was put on Twitter was also just removed, because...
	Yeah.
	I mean...
	I don't think people realise, or at least the people high up realise that this just creates the Streisand effect.
	Yes.
	Yeah, you remove it, you go, well, it must be something important then.
	Which is good news, really.
	I mean, as a free speech advocate, if Twitter wants to shoot itself on the foot every day...
	Absolutely, go for it, Twitter.
	If we go to the next one, you can see someone making the point here as well, which is that both of the people in the conversation were vaccinated.
	So, again, the anti-vax label looking kind of more stupid.
	Yeah, I mean, McCullough himself has been highly involved and very hands-on with the response to COVID since the pandemic emerged.
	But I'm sure he's the Antichrist and we're bound to say it because otherwise YouTube will shoot us behind the bike shed or something.
	Let's go to the next one.
	So you can see that he has now also joined Getter.
	As you can see here, the CEO of Getter, Jason Miller, celebrating that, well, he's on here now, along with Joe Rogan and a load of other people.
	And if we go to the next link, we can see him talking about this.
	This is an article called The Postmillennial.
	And there's a statement in the conversation in which they actually discuss the topic of censorship, you know, sort of preemptively, let's say.
	And a quote from Malone, I try really hard to give people the information and help them to think, not to tell them what to think.
	Okay?
	But the point is, if I'm not, if it's not okay for me to be part of the conversation, even though I'm pointing out scientific facts that may be inconvenient, then who can be allowed?
	Very salient point.
	Which is just, well, we're not allowing people who have, you know, the background necessary for having this discussion.
	You want your experts?
	Okay, here's an expert that has X opinion.
	Yeah, but the opinion is still the wrong thing.
	You never wanted an expert.
	Yeah, I forget who it was who put it on Twitter.
	It might have been Hassan or someone of that caliber of intellect who said, like, oh, well, if you've got one non-expert, Joe Rogan, speaking to an expert, you're obviously just going to get the wrong information.
	You need two experts.
	Okay, here's two.
	Ah, three.
	All about 47 doctors on the steps of the Capitol.
	Don't worry, I've got a firm grasp on these goalposts.
	I can take them as long as I need to.
	It's an absurd argument to say, you know, arbitrary number of expertise needed and obviously dishonest.
	What they care about is the opinions.
	And, well, the liberal and reasonable thing to do instead is just to allow people to have the fight.
	Go and discuss.
	Yeah.
	And no, that is not the position of Twitter or YouTube, because they're not liberal.
	But this also coincides with a lot of other stuff going on.
	So Marjorie Taylor Greene, also getting banned from Twitter, and as you can see her posting on Getter, because she's now joined Getter, verify checkmark there.
	Her whole post about her response to that, which is, when Maxine Waters can go to the streets and threaten violence on Twitter, Kamala and Ilhan can bail out rioters on Twitter, the chief spokesman for the terrorist group IRGC can tweet, but I get suspended for tweeting, Twitter is an enemy to America and can't handle the truth.
	Certainly can't.
	As she has demonstrated by the fact that she's banned.
	Excellent point.
	This is all just becoming more and more of an advertisement for everyone to jump over to Getter when they see all of these people getting axed.
	Because you just look at it and you go, okay, random people getting axed.
	Am I going to be axed?
	I mean, if Geller's not your cup of tea, there's Gab and all the rest of it, of course.
	But the thing in my mind is, especially the Americans, the American conservative liberal types seem to have learned this, that socialist types are all living on Twitter and the rest of them slowly moving over.
	I mean, after Donald Trump, I mean, what were you expecting?
	The British conservative types, not from what I've seen.
	Is Trump on Geller?
	Politician types is what I'm getting at.
	Trump, I don't think he's on Getter.
	He should get on that.
	I don't think he's on Gab or anything though, because he's just sort of like sending out those emails that are like, you know, from the president to the United States.
	I miss his stream of thought ramblings, so I really want him to get on one of them.
	Who doesn't?
	So, it's a bit annoying, but okay.
	And as you can see, Marsha Lee Taylor Greene and a bunch of other conservative Americans, Republicans, lawmakers, all the rest of it are now on Getter and banned from Twitter because, well, the internet is becoming divided more and more.
	If we go to the next link, you can see Gellar celebrating just a huge number of other people who have joined, of note.
	And in here, you may recognize some names.
	I just jotted down the ones I recognize, so sorry if I missed someone.
	The Quartering, Dave Rubin, Zuby, Calvin Robertson, Andy Ngo, Paul Joseph Watson, Voice of Wales, Majid Nawaz, Brett Weinstein, Mythicist Milwaukee, Ezra Levant, Lauren Chen, Helen Dale and Toby Young, and many, many more.
	So once again, it's not even necessarily like it's just constrained to conservative voices, people like Brett Weinstein, you know?
	They're all just seeing that the Writings on the wall for Twitter.
	It's censored voices, fundamentally.
	Yes.
	And dissidents.
	And I can see John has updated.
	I did say there was 150,000 more.
	Apparently there's 171,000 more who have joined in the last 24 hours, which is a huge exodus of people just going, alright, I'll help with this, bye.
	Once again, you're doing great business for Getter, Twitter.
	Good job.
	Yeah, I mean, there is nothing more that I think could help Getter except Twitter being worse.
	And the more they are worse, the more the platform dies, and that's good news.
	And can you believe that it turns out that...
	Oh my god, Jack.
	I forgot his name for a moment.
	Jack was the moderating force of Twitter, it turns out.
	And as soon as he's gone, it's just like, well, let's just ban all these people.
	Maybe, but I mean, all of those policies were put under him, so I don't see him as any moderating force at all, frankly.
	Well, relatively speaking, right?
	Next link, we can also see Lord Pearson on Getter as well, as you can see here, putting one of his speeches.
	I really love Lord Pearson's speeches in the house, because he always just brings out inconvenient truths, and he's like, can we discuss it?
	And the whole opposite side just starts moaning.
	He's like, I asked if we could discuss Islam, and you all moan.
	Why is that?
	Let's go to the next one, so we can see Jordan Pearson also setting up his account.
	I mean, the number of people is immense, and then the number of figures who have also dealt with censorship in many a different way are also jumping over as well, as I'm getting at it.
	If we go to the next slide, we see Getter was trending on Twitter on number 8.
	So this is number 8 in the USA. And those are obviously the reasons, as mentioned.
	And if we go to the next one, we can see Grabby and Media were also banned and had to move over because, well, not allowed to post pictures of representatives criticizing pharmaceutical corporations.
	Can you?
	That's not allowed!
	Get lost!
	So they kick them out.
	And the question on my mind, of course, is from a US perspective, will it get parloured?
	And I thought it's worth remembering, or at least put an F in the chat for Parlour because, well, they didn't deserve what happened to them, obviously.
	We can see here Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez back in the day saying, what are Apple and Google Play doing about this?
	The doing about this, the fact that people were on Parlour saying three things...
	Yep.
	He's allowed to say things.
	Oh no.
	And then it gets left up.
	Call Mrs.
	and tell.
	Tell on Parler.
	What have they done?
	And she did.
	She called up Apple and Google and being like, hey, get rid of this.
	And they did.
	And yeah, they did.
	And if we go to the next one, there's another representative in the house who also did this at the time that I think is worth remembering, going after the Amazon Web Services.
	And, well, are they going to not do this to get her?
	They're probably going to try.
	And...
	I mean, if they succeed, then we'll have another great example of how the market is not free and instead is rigged.
	And if they fail, well, then we keep a nice free speech platform, which is always good.
	But this was more of a story, I think, fundamentally for the UK political scene.
	Of course, huge and massive audience in the US and not doubting that for a minute.
	But if we go to the next one, you can see it was actually trending number two in the UK, as Jason points out.
	UK coming in hot there.
	And this is because...
	Twitter has not just gone after conservatives, as you mentioned, or people who say things about the virus, coronavirus, no, no, they also go after people who just report footy news, apparently.
	This was the most confusing part for me.
	Yeah, imagine ours breaking politics for all, news for all, football for all.
	All suspended.
	Oh god!
	Apparently this was run by some, like, centre-right Tory, uh, what is he, like, 18, something like that?
	I can't remember.
	I don't, I don't know the guy, but it wouldn't surprise me.
	That was the politics for all guy, and as you can see, his subsequent news for all and football for all, uh, also banned.
	And it wouldn't surprise me, but at the same time, I didn't see much of a particular ideological bent to the tweets he was putting out.
	He's just like, well, here's the news, here's the article.
	I mean, we featured him a million times, and people may remember, and the point as well, obviously, being that he doesn't say anything.
	Yeah.
	Literally zero things, because all he does is take, here's a quote, or here's a thing that was said in the newspaper, here's the link to the newspaper.
	There you go.
	He was banned for saying nothing.
	Well, he was banned for saying the mainstream headlines.
	Yes, for saying that a thing was said can get you banned, including your football for all account.
	So if I post the photo of myself with the Daily Telegraph or something, I'm putting myself at risk.
	You're saying what's in the Daily Telegraph.
	Oh my goodness.
	If we go to the next link, you see Specsavers.
	I mean, as normie a normie company as you could probably think, decided to get in on the mockery of this ridiculous situation, changing their name to Glasses for All, which...
	Twitter should have gone to Specsavers.
	There's a million jokes in there.
	Please don't suspend us, Twitter, and then getting 26,000 likes on Twitter, because they're still there for that.
	Even Spectators, Specsavers, are dunking on you.
	Yeah, Specsavers.
	The glasses company.
	Yep.
	I mean, this is what I mean by it's not just political circles.
	Maybe they're just saying that the guy couldn't see and his hand just slipped.
	Yeah, but it's not even political circles, it's not even dissident circles at this point.
	This is complete randos.
	Twitter's just there with the banned shotgun and just firing randomly into the crowd.
	Whoever was scrolling through Twitter on the social media, whoever the social media manager for Twitter is for Specsavers is just like...
	Let's go to the next one so we can see Telegram as well.
	This is where Politics for All are at the moment.
	I don't know why they haven't made a Getter account.
	Maybe they have.
	They haven't just had it verified yet, but I couldn't find it.
	So I'm sure they'll jump over at some point.
	And if we carry on, we can see some of the other stuff here that I thought was entertaining.
	The bad man.
	Because the bad man is on Getter as well.
	And this is fundamentally, as we've seen, a long-running situation.
	I mean, when was the bad man banned from all social media?
	A while back.
	2016 or something?
	I don't even know.
	I mean, ages ago.
	And, well, he was lobbied by Mohammed Shafiq, who literally went to Facebook HQ and just told lies about him, saying he was involved in terrorism, and then Facebook banned him.
	And then they tried to say it's because he advocated violence against Muslims and then had to admit that they have no evidence of that.
	It's...
	Don't know why they're able to do that and not be sued, but whatever.
	And I thought we'd mention what he's been up to, because this is the other aspect of Getter and Free Platforms that I like, which is that these people all get resurrected.
	And you can see what they've been saying, because they've been censored everywhere else.
	I mean, agree or disagree with them, they're interesting characters, evident by the fact that so many people follow them and they produce content.
	So he says in here, when I started using Getter, it seemed like a total American audience.
	Looks like British have flooded in these last seven days.
	Give us a retweet if you are British.
	Let's see ya.
	So, I mean, there's the other aspect of that.
	For the Americans, of course, Joe Rogan and Marjorie Greene Taylor.
	But for the UK, just random people.
	We're all just getting banned as well.
	Football for all.
	Gone.
	What does football for all ever do against progressive ideology?
	Be mainly appealing to working class people, I would imagine.
	And if we carry on, we'll go into something, because I noticed this article came up, I think it was yesterday or the day before?
	Anti-vaxxers take part in boxing drills and combat veterans as thousands join secret group threatening direct action later this month.
	And I'm like, what?
	Alpha men assemble.
	What?
	I've got a telegram group with 2,800 members.
	Never heard of them.
	Nope.
	I don't know what the hell you're talking about, but okay.
	And then when you dig into this, I think I found the reason why, which is they mention a quote here.
	Alpha Men's members regularly share stories published by the bad man.
	Rumbly Tombly.
	Yeah, Rumbly Tomblyson.
	A social media channel with more than 150,000 subscribers that is overseen by those with links to the English Defence League.
	All right.
	Hang on.
	The accusation is that this group, this random group of a thousand people on Telegram, have met up and done some combat training, and they share stories from this outlet.
	Okay.
	Do they also share stories from the Daily Mail?
	Oh no, Daily Mail is a front for terrorism, we've got him boys!
	Daily Mail, EDL, bam.
	Confirmed.
	And it's a weird mention in there, in a story that you wouldn't expect to be in there, except of course that they want to make the bad man out to be a terrorist all of a sudden.
	If we go to the next link, we've covered this previously, but as you can see, this was a story in which they claim, what was it, the world's 20 most dangerous extremists revealed?
	Wasn't he number 20?
	He wasn't.
	Wait, where was he?
	He was number 20 in the Suns version of events, but when you went to the Suns link to the organisation that made the list, he wasn't on the top 20 at all.
	Oh, I was going to expect that he was number 5 or something, they had him really high up, but no, the Suns just tacked him on.
	He just wasn't there, so either this is complete fake news, or there was a link at the bottom that said download the full report, so maybe he's in the 50th place or something.
	And they just decided to scoot him up a bit because they know that putting him in a headline...
	Except that link doesn't work.
	And if you click it, it doesn't download anything.
	You just get a 404.
	So this is just confirmed clickbait?
	Is this just complete fake news?
	I'm not able to tell because we're not able to get the original document because you can't download it.
	And none of the archives have it either.
	So...
	Where did this accusation come from?
	I mean, for one, the dude's a journo, not a terrorist.
	Like, he's committed some crimes in the past, but that's not making him a terrorist.
	And they were completely unrelated to anything political, really, weren't they?
	Well, no, they're related to political things, like he wants to punch a Nazi, which is very bad.
	Oh, that's a terrible thing.
	I can understand why the left would be annoyed at him for that.
	One of our own!
	And what is all this about?
	And it is a bit weird, coming all at the same time.
	And we might have an idea, because the bad man thinks he has an idea, especially.
	If we go to the next link, you can see him publishing on Getter his new promo.
	And this has already got 140,000 views there.
	And this is a promo for his new documentary, The Rape of Britain, and the specifics here being Telford.
	And he believes he's uncovered a huge problem there and is going to promo it live, not just on Get It, but also in person, which John has invited me to, so let's go, because it'll be fun.
	So that's Saturday, 29th of January, 2pm, Telford, and we'll have a look at his accusations and what he has to say.
	So, there you have it.
	Very interesting.
	And in case you're wondering about the grooming scandal or don't know all the details or how bad it is or just have some time, please, for the love of God, actually check out the other speech he gave, which is the Rope of Britain, which he gave in Russia because he couldn't give this speech in the UK without being deplatformed.
	So he had to go to the Russian Federation for free speech.
	The irony.
	Yeah, it's ridiculous.
	But this is an hour and a half speech in which he just goes through the history and the history nationally of, well, where did the accusations come from, where were the denials from the press, the eventual acceptance, and then the lack of action and, well, even...
	Continued situation.
	But go and give that a watch as well, especially if you haven't.
	And I think we'll end that there.
	But yeah, absolute exodus from Twitter.
	Good news.
	Twitter killing itself.
	Good news.
	And Twitter, I don't think they realise what damage they've done just sending Joe Rogan over to Getter.
	Joe Rogan has such an enormous audience that he's just bringing over with him.
	They'll just follow him wherever he goes.
	Spotify had to pay Joe 100 million.
	Getter had to pay him nada.
	Yeah.
	This looks like a pretty big win.
	Forget of that.
	Yes.
	Anyway, alright, moving on.
	So, the New Year's Honours list has been revealed, and I think they have all been granted at this point, haven't they, from the 1st of January?
	I assume so.
	I believe so, yes.
	And there were a few controversial additions to it this year.
	Number one being Sir Tony Blair.
	That's right.
	We don't have to call him Sir until it's happened, at least.
	I'm pretty sure it's already happened at this point, but yes.
	So Sir Tony Blair has been knighted, but already there has been some controversy surrounding the decision, unsurprisingly, including a petition to remove his honours already, which this article from GB News has said has reached 220,000 signatures.
	I believe at the moment it's gone up already to 400,000 signatures or something of the like.
	But let's take a look through here.
	So petition started on New Year's Day to remove Tony Blair's knighthood has now reached over 250,000 signatures.
	The petition organiser Angus Scott wrote Tony Blair is to be knighted with the highest possible ranking in the New Year honours list, Buckingham Palace has said.
	Sir Tony, who held the keys to number 10 between 1997 and 2007, which I believe made him the number one longest-serving Labour Prime Minister with 10 years, will be appointed a knight companion of the most noble order of the Garter, the oldest and most senior British order of chivalry.
	They give him an order of the Gartha too?
	Yes, that's the...
	On top of the knighthood?
	That's the position they've granted him, yes.
	Right.
	I can see the chat already is just like, boo, hiss.
	Good, good, as you should be.
	He's behind you, I don't know.
	Tony Blair caused irreparable damage, actually, to be fair, he is quite ghoulish nowadays, isn't he?
	I'm scratching him creeping up on you.
	Oh god, no, I don't want to.
	Rumblin' tomblin', get on it.
	Tony Blair caused irreparable damage to both the constitution of the United Kingdom and to the very fabric of the nation's society.
	He was personally responsible for causing the death of countless innocent civilian lives and servicemen in various conflicts.
	For this alone, he should be held accountable for war crimes.
	Tony Blair is the least deserving person of any public honour, particularly anything awarded by Her Majesty the Queen, and we petition the Prime Minister to...
	To petition Her Majesty to have this honour removed.
	One signatory wrote, Pretty based.
	The appointment was made by the Queen in her New Year's Honours list.
	Knighting the Prime Ministers is not uncommon with Sir John Major, Sir Tony's direct predecessor, the last to have the honour bestowed to him.
	Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle has said that he thinks every former Prime Minister should receive the honour from the Queen.
	Whatever people might think, it is one of the toughest jobs in the world, and I think it is respectful and the right thing to do.
	Whether it's Tony Blair or to David Cameron, they should all be offered the knighthood when they finish as Prime Minister.
	No!
	Just no!
	Why would you do this?
	You don't just get a pat on the back for doing the job.
	So, who are you?
	You're the Prime Minister of the House of Commons.
	You're meant to be a commoner.
	Like, I understand that, you know, some Prime Ministers, sort of like Winston Churchill, should obviously be levelled with immense praise or whatever.
	But if you want to remain yourself in a position of Commons, I don't feel like you should be having every other title under the sun thrown at you.
	Yeah, especially when it's a position that you're not a volunteer as Prime Minister.
	You've got quite a lot of cash.
	Yeah, you're getting paid for it, and I believe that Tony Blair, in and of himself, is quite a wealthy man.
	So he doesn't need this pat on the back.
	I'm sure he's already pulled his shoulder patting himself on the back over the years.
	Showing himself in blood money?
	Oh, yes, exactly.
	And just a reminder as well, if we go over here, we've got the Wikipedia link, that Tony Blair's knighthood, being a knighthood, The most noble order of the Garter is the highest honour that can be bestowed upon you in Britain.
	And it says, just to give an idea, it's the world's oldest national order of knighthood in continuous existence and the pinnacle of the British honours system after the Victoria Cross and George Cross.
	His membership is extremely limited, consisting of the Sovereign, the Prince of Wales, both being members ex officio and gaining membership upon acceding to one of the titles, and not more than 24 full members or companions.
	Male members are known as knight's companion, whilst female members are known as lady's companion.
	I assume 24 are live, because there have been quite a lot of people.
	Yes, I believe 24 are live.
	If you scroll down, you can see the current members, John.
	And you can see, if we go down, Tony Blair is the most recent edition being made in this year.
	Oh wait, no.
	Baroness Amos as well, former cabinet minister.
	But yeah, Tony Blair is one of the most recent that's been done over the past few days.
	And he's among some pretty high status company by the looks of it.
	I mean, this puts him basically on par with the Queen.
	In terms of honours, which I do not believe that he is justified whatsoever.
	But if we move along, we can also see the petition itself.
	So you can see, yeah, 382,000 right now.
	Oh, wait.
	Going up.
	Yep, it keeps going up, and that was probably like, what, 15 minutes ago?
	It's gone up in like 30,000 already?
	You can see it ticking up in real time, actually.
	Yep, at 500,000 signatures, this petition becomes one of the top signed in change.org, so you can check the links below if you would like to add your name to the signatures right there.
	If you think this human goblin, as he has pictured, does not deserve a knighthood, well, I couldn't agree more.
	Yeah, and the funny thing is, if you type in Tony Blair's name on change.org, there's a number of petitions like this.
	Obviously, this is the most popular one, but there's just a few that just arrest Tony Blair, and one that was literally just F off Tony Blair.
	Try him in the Hague for war crimes, Tony Blair?
	Is that one up there yet?
	Not yet.
	I mean, arrest probably implies it.
	But yeah, I do find it funny that about 400 people had signed the F off Tony Blair just so we can have an official from the House of Commons just go away.
	F off.
	You know what's annoying though?
	If they had done this as an official petition on the government website, if you get 100,000, they do actually have to have it as a debate in Parliament.
	I'd love to see that debate in Parliament.
	Just...
	Should Tony Blair F off?
	Yeah.
	Just that as the title.
	There we go.
	But yeah, and you can scroll along here.
	This is why I think that he's already been knighted.
	No, if you go to the next link, John.
	Yeah, it says on the government website now, the Right Honourable Tony Blair.
	I know, that's because he's an MP, I believe.
	Oh, okay, fair play.
	Well, I don't know if he's been knighted or not.
	I believe he might have already, but yeah, he's the...
	It basically goes through his history, the longest-serving Labour Prime Minister oversaw the Northern Irish peace process, goes over some of his major acts and positives, but even in the biography, they do have to start pointing out near the bottom, he made some questionable decisions that weren't the most popular...
	We have to admit that, but overall it's relatively positive, but we don't want to be thinking of Tony Blair as a mostly positive Prime Minister.
	Mostly peaceful Prime Minister.
	Yes, a mostly peaceful Prime Minister.
	We'll go over a few of the things that he did.
	Obviously, the most well-known and important was his involvement in the Afghan and Iraq War, led into it by George W. Bush, and weapons of mass destruction which never materialised anywhere.
	But if we move along, we can also see the other effects that he's had on the UK. I think we've used this particular graph a few times, but it's just quite striking.
	If you scroll down, you can see net immigration to the UK over time around 1997.
	There's a bit of an uptick, isn't there?
	That just stays there forever.
	Yeah, that never goes away.
	And I think, obviously, this is also showing a big failing of our current Conservative government that they've not brought it down in the slightest.
	But Tony Blair's government was the one that opened the floodgates to the current mass immigration that we're experiencing in the UK. So, thanks for that one, Tony.
	And if we go along as well to the next link, there was the...
	The issue of him passing, well, his government passing just so many laws to the point where it averages out to seven laws a day.
	So if I go through this, Tony Blair's...
	That includes the days when they're not sitting.
	Yeah, exactly.
	They'll just pass in their spare time.
	I might just pass a few laws today.
	Well, no, I mean, like, they're passing so many in the days that they're even in the chamber.
	Even when you add the days that they're all out of the chamber, you end up with seven a day.
	Yeah.
	It's ridiculous.
	Tony Blair's ten years as Prime Minister have been marked by a dramatic jump in the volume of new laws, according to research.
	Over the course of the last decade, each year has seen an average of 2,685 new laws, the equivalent of almost seven and a half a day, or one every three and a quarter hours.
	That's how you run a sensible government.
	That's how governance should work.
	Yes.
	Every three and a quarter hours, there's a new law, Governor.
	I mean, that's not the rule of law, that's just ruling more laws constantly.
	That is a 22% increase over the average 2,196 annually over the previous 10 years, between 1987 and 1996.
	That's still pretty high, if I'm honest, but it's gone up.
	And the total does not even include thousands of laws introduced into UK... I think this article is obviously a little bit old now,
	but some 98% of the new laws in the Blair decade were introduced by statutory instrument, a procedure which allows less time for debate in Parliament and potentially less thorough scrutiny than the tabling of a bill.
	So they're just trying to pass him out as quickly as possible, get him through the system without being really questioned.
	This is another number of the charges against Tony Blair that will be on the books when he's finally arrested.
	Yes, hopefully.
	Critics of Blair's government...
	Sorry, but this is someone who does not respect our political system.
	No, absolutely not.
	Having been reading a bit on political theory, legal theory, one of the marks of the rule of law is that the citizenship should be able to make reasonable inference of what the law is before they're charged with it.
	But when you have seven new laws being passed today, under legislation where they're trying to skirt past the official procedures to make sure that we're not just passing frivolous laws, how is anybody supposed to be completely aware of Of whether they may be breaking a law just by crossing the road at the wrong time of day or something.
	Like, my understanding is even lawyers at the time had this as a bit of a joke.
	They even couldn't understand what was going on.
	I mean, never mind the average citizen.
	Yeah, I mean, the red tape that it piles up on every little interaction that you might be doing in your everyday life is ridiculous.
	But I mean, it says here, meanwhile, the statutes themselves have become longer, with five acts passed in 2006, totaling more than 100 pages, three more than 200, one more than 300, one more than 500, and one more than 700.
	That's getting up to build-back-better levels right there.
	I forget who said it, but there was possibly Winston Churchill who said, the Right and Honourable Sir blah-de-blah has made this law criticism-proofed by the sheer length of it.
	Meaning that no one's going to read it when you get handed a 700-page document saying this is what the new laws are going to be.
	You're going to go, I don't know.
	You're voting on it in two hours.
	Oh, great.
	Well, I'll just give it a bit of a skim then.
	So, yeah, once again, the deluge of laws that we have to wade through is...
	Absolutely on Blair's back.
	And one of the laws that his government introduced, obviously we can't directly blame him for it, but obviously it was one of the laws passed in this seven-a-day period, was the Communications Act 2003, which has Section 127 in it, which Callum in particular is very familiar with.
	I'm sure we're all very familiar with at this point.
	This is the decriminalisation of jokes in this country, which is why this country is an international embarrassment on free speech.
	Yes, and let's not also forget Blair's recent contributions to public discussion.
	If we move along, you can see Tony Blair says that Brits refusing COVID vaccines are idiots.
	Tony Blair, who said that Brits who refuse to get vaccinated are not just irresponsible, but idiots.
	The former Prime Minister said getting vaccinated is not only in the interests of the individual, but also in the interests of the broader public.
	Sorry if I'm not going to trust your opinion on anything, Tony.
	I'm not commenting on any of the Vax stuff, because we're on YouTube.
	But this does not sound like somebody who respects the tradition of British liberties, shall we say.
	And this has been pointed out by other people.
	If we move along, you can see on Twitter here, Chris Rose, who's a good guy, says, I do view Tony Blair as the Mrs.
	Brown Boys of the UK politics, as in I'm sure people who still like him exist, but I'm yet to meet them in real life.
	Which...
	Check out, to be honest, because if we move along again, you can see there's a YouGov poll where they track the popularity and fame of certain public figures.
	You can see that he's liked a shocking amount by 22% of people who answer, but disliked by 57% of all respondents.
	Yeah, it doesn't seem to be that much of a popular opinion to think that Tony Blair did a great job.
	I think that YouGov poll did actually include the bad man, and Tony Blair has a lower like rating than the bad man.
	The bad man is officially more popular than Tony Blair.
	Yes, win!
	Right there, based.
	And if we move along, there is some people, though, who are a little bit more forgiving on this, who are a little bit...
	Less harsh than we would be, shall we say.
	For instance, shocking to me, Julia Hartley Brewer from Talk Radio, who's typically one for good takes on a lot of subjects, says that she thinks the honour system is a total joke in the 21st century and has always been corrupt, but if a man who was elected three times to be our nation's prime minister isn't entitled to a knighthood, then who the hell is?
	That's the similar sort of argumentation to the, what was his name, Lord Hoyle or whatever it was.
	Yeah, Sir Lindsay Hoyle would basically just say, "Oh well they were Prime Minister, so we might as well just give it to them." And it's not really a take I agree with.
	No.
	No, at all.
	Just because you're elected three times and are popular at the time does not mean that you should be knighted.
	Knighthoods, generally speaking, are granted retrospectively.
	You know Hitler was elected?
	Yeah, exactly.
	You know, there's this thing called the benefit of hindsight, where we can look back on what they ended up doing and its consequences and effects.
	Yeah, you can see John right there.
	Hindsight.
	He planted the seed of destruction of the entire nation.
	Great point, John.
	And if we move along...
	So, that was surprising from Julia.
	Unsurprisingly, from Tom Harwood.
	Sir Tony probably deserves it, to be honest.
	You can't wait to call him Sir Tony, can you?
	Yeah, absolutely cannot.
	Tom...
	What are you doing?
	I mean, the sad thing is with Tom Harwood, as much as we criticise him and make fun of him, I do think that the actions of the Conservative Party lead me to believe that the Tom Harwoods of the world might be the majority Conservative opinion within the party, or it might be reflective of it on a certain level, which is quite depressing to think.
	Would you not agree?
	I don't know.
	I mean, the ones I've met have all been pretty base, but they're all local people, aren't they?
	Well, yeah, they're the ones who'll actually interact with us, whereas Boris Johnson, for instance, I think probably is more on the Harwood side of the spectrum, shall we say.
	We'll find out.
	Yeah, and then if we move along, there's other people just saying, oh, the Blair government was the best government of my lifetime, thank you, what is obviously a Tony Blair alt account.
	LAUGHTER If we...
	We can see a few more of these if you scoot along.
	So Blair government was the best government of my lifetime, and by far, and I'm very old and very senile, presumably.
	Move along.
	Somebody put out a reminder for those dissing Tony Blair today.
	He did the Good Friday Agreement.
	Restored devolved government to the Northern Ireland.
	Devolved power to the Scottish Parliament and the Welsh Assembly.
	Are these good things?
	This is crazy.
	Crap!
	This is just more ammunition for me to diss him with.
	And he introduced the Equality and Human Rights Commission.
	Boo!
	Great, wonderful.
	Okay, so this is the guy who destroyed the UK as an institution and instead made it a hash-mash of random federated sort of countries.
	I don't even know what to call it.
	It's a huge mesh devolved nonsense.
	But then also, okay, so he's the guy who brings in the fact that we had that huge debate about whether or not prisoners should have the right to vote.
	The answer is no.
	No.
	They've given up their civil liberties by breaking the law and being convicted guilty in the court of their jurors.
	They can vote when they're out.
	That's it.
	There you go.
	But there's also stuff in here, I can't see it, but there's a mention of record levels of students in higher education, which I assume means university.
	That's not a good thing.
	No, he was the moron who decided that it would be a goal to put 50% of all people through university, and therefore, naturally, they would all get useful degrees and become useful to society.
	Look where that's got us, Tony.
	Thanks.
	And then if we move along again, you can see we've got the High Honours list again, next link.
	There's a few other interesting additions to this, including, I suppose now he'll be Sir Chris Whitty.
	And Lady Jenny Harries, both members of the SAGE Commission, who have done such a great job for the UK over the past two years.
	But before we go into that, just as a heads up for people, here's what the government website says.
	If you move along again, you need to get an honour.
	If you want to scroll down, it'll say somewhere down there.
	But here's the list of attributes they're looking for if you want to be knighted in the UK. So if I was to nominate you, what I need...
	Yes, exactly.
	Making a difference to the community or field of work.
	Well, he certainly made a difference to the community.
	I mean, destroying communities is making a difference, I suppose.
	Not a positive difference, but okay.
	Alright, ticking that box.
	Alright.
	Enhancing Britain's reputation.
	Pfft!
	Oh, maybe not.
	It's been enhanced.
	Again.
	Long-term voluntary service.
	Once again, he wasn't voluntary.
	He was paid to do it.
	Innovation and entrepreneurship.
	I suppose technically he volunteered for the position, in the sense of you volunteered for the army.
	And then he was paid handsomely for it.
	Yeah, but if you're in the army, you get paid, I suppose.
	I'm sort of like steel manning, like pulling at strings here, I know.
	Yes, you're pulling at threads, yeah.
	I thought I'd try.
	Changing things with an emphasis on achievement.
	Once again, he certainly changed things.
	Improving life for people less able to help themselves.
	I mean, they tried.
	Wait, hang on.
	Okay, so the rest of these, I mean, we're sort of memeing.
	Sure, he changed things.
	Okay, taken the box.
	Improving life for people less able to help themselves.
	Come on.
	No.
	I mean, obviously not.
	And displaying moral courage.
	That's what you call chaotic evil.
	Blind stupidity could be mistaken for courage, so, you know.
	So those are the attributes needed to get an honour.
	And then, as we move along, as I've mentioned, Chris Whitty is getting an honour.
	Does he demonstrate these virtuous qualities of enhancing Britain's reputation, innovation and entrepreneurship...
	I wouldn't say so, but this is just a reminder that he is the chief medical officer and one of the higher-ups in SAGE who have been obviously dealing with the COVID response over the past two years and doing such a spectacular job of it.
	They are, in fact, responsible for the modelling that Britain's been basing its responses off.
	If we move along, we can see Spectator have consistently been doing a tracker on this that we've used a few times.
	We do keep using it because it's important.
	Yes, it just completely demonstrates that all of their projections have been wrong.
	Every single time.
	And not just a little bit wrong, spectacularly wrong.
	Excellent display of moral courage there, Chris, to be so spectacularly wrong publicly so many times.
	Congratulations, here's your knighthood.
	And then if we move along again, we can see another of Whitty's achievements, that children under his watch, children with learning disabilities, including autism, were offered do not resuscitate orders as part of the COVID strategy.
	And this is the tip of the iceberg that we and the others have been reporting.
	I mean, it almost sounds like there should be a medieval nursery rhyme about him.
	Like, you know, the child murderer, oh, Sir Witty, or something like that, you know?
	But this is certainly a display of improving life for people less able to help themselves.
	Surely!
	I help the parents by disposing of their child's corpse.
	Yes, he certainly changed things with an emphasis on achievement.
	We achieved record mortality rates.
	No, I don't know if we did that.
	Autism has fallen in the country.
	Yeah, how do you do it, Chris?
	Yeah.
	And then, once again, Jenny Harries got an honour as well.
	If we move along, we covered this a few, I think it was last week, talking about how she was in charge of the dodgy data used to push for tighter COVID restrictions.
	One of Britain's most senior health advisors has been accused of disseminating dodgy data that inflated the potential risk of Omicron.
	Dr Jenny Harries, the chief executive of the UK Security Agency, is understood to have been the source of a contested claim by Sajid Javid that So these are the people advising our politicians.
	These are the people...
	Giving the advice to them and where people like Sajid Javid keep pulling these random figures and dates and numbers out of their back pocket from.
	And the Queen and the government have just decided, yeah, great job.
	Good job.
	Here's your knighthood.
	So, I do think that this is more of a dishonours list, and I feel bad for anybody who has to be knighted alongside this deluge of failures that we see before them.
	I mean, next they're probably going to be offering one for Susan Mitchie.
	And services to her comrades.
	Lady communist.
	Yes, exactly.
	Other notable knighthoods, just to throw a few out there, also include actors like Joanna Lumley and Daniel Craig.
	And if I were them, I'd ask if I could just be held off till next year.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	So that's just all of that information I've got there looking into that.
	So yeah, we're a very serious country.
	I promise.
	Yeah.
	That's your takeaway.
	So, I thought we'd move on to something a little more cheery, or at least a little bit positive, which is that leftists are starting to look at Joe Biden and actually thinking about, okay, when did we remove him?
	Who did we put in his place?
	And we have some thoughts from insiders.
	So this is a Politico article going through all this.
	And I thought I'd cover it because they do have a lot of different quotes here from people who worked for like Bernie Sanders or AOC or all the rest of it.
	And they are giving their two cents openly, which is just old man bad.
	Old man not doing anything.
	Old man old.
	Old man old.
	Old man very confused.
	Yes, a senior citizen, Mr.
	Biden, has gone on holiday in his own head for the last, I don't know, 10 years of his life.
	He's been having a grand old time, though.
	And they think that their no refunds policy of getting him into office and then getting nothing has been a bit of a myth.
	So they're looking at what they can do to replace him.
	So this is the article.
	The left is already looking into 2024.
	Some want to see a Biden primary challenge.
	And just think in my head, if I was American right now, especially in a marginal constituency leading up to the midterms and whatnot, I would absolutely be going out there and campaigning just to remove these people to make as much of an impact as possible.
	Get these frauds and criminals out of office.
	Yeah, I mean, you may just get Team Red, and Team Red may disappoint you at some point, absolutely, but Team Blue will be guaranteed to disappoint you, so...
	Team Red don't seem as ardent in their support of grooming your children.
	I mean, of course, depends on the candidate, and do get to know the candidate, but then also, you have a direct line to the candidate as being somebody who campaigned for them.
	I mean, the thing with...
	This isn't an advertisement for the Republican Party.
	Places like Virginia, the Republicans manage to win basically by going, we won't indoctrinate your children and give them pornography in the schools.
	I mean, if it's that easy.
	We won't send rapists into your daughter's bathroom at school and then lie about it.
	I'll campaign on that.
	There we go.
	I'll embezzle funds.
	I'll do X, Y, and Z corruption, but I won't have your kids raped at school.
	I'll vote for that one.
	Give this man a medal.
	Congratulations.
	That's all it takes to be elected in the United States of America.
	So let's look at Team Rapist and what they've got to say instead.
	So when Joe Biden first came to office, progressives said he could be the next FDR. Now, as Biden's relationship with the left has come under strain, liberals are talking about treating him like President Jimmy Carter instead, and mapping out a Democratic Party challenge in 2024.
	I would say that there are some caveats to be the FDR comparison, given that didn't he stay in office far longer than he was supposed to and also hide his disabilities?
	We could break Joe Biden's leg if that makes you feel better.
	I mean, the administration seems to be hiding a few of his disabilities.
	Not doing a very good job, but trying.
	So they continue in here.
	Will there be a progressive challenger?
	Yes, says Jeff Weaver, Senator Bernie Sanders' former presidential campaign manager.
	Young, spry, progressive candidate.
	Yeah, presumably not Bernie.
	I think later on, Jeff, this progressive guy here, even says that not Bernie.
	Not Bernie.
	Because Bernie would be 82 years old by 2024.
	Oh, I thought Bernie was older than Biden.
	Is he, what, like a year or two younger?
	No, he is older than Biden, I think.
	Oh, really?
	These are our candidates.
	Look at these shriveled prunes.
	Which do you prefer?
	Have you seen Jay Rake's video on this?
	No, I haven't.
	So how should we elect the next president?
	He's like, I'm sick of having old man versus old man, and all they do is debate.
	How about two guys in a ring, they beat each other to death, whoever's the biggest wins.
	Simple system.
	Can we have the two contenders still beat Old Man?
	I mean, if you want.
	It's taken very slowly.
	But if you run Young Man and he beats Old Man to death, then we follow Young Man because, well, he won, didn't he?
	He's strong.
	Lead tribe.
	Yeah, very return-to-monkey attitude.
	I can't do us worse than these candidates, can't?
	Surely.
	I mean, Trump would beat the crap out of Biden, so where's the downsides?
	So Weaver stresses that he is not advocating for such a primary campaign, but the chatter about a left-wing challenge to Biden, which was virtually non-existent weeks ago, has suddenly burst into public view in the wake of Senator Joe Manchin killing the President's Climate and Social Spending Bill, the Build Back Better Bill.
	God bless Joe Manchin.
	Piss money up the wall because that's something, isn't it, Bill?
	Trillions of dollars, trillion shmillions.
	So, well, that got killed, and then all the progressives were like, dude, you're killing our stuff, and he was like, yeah, Chad, get effed.
	Cool guy.
	Sure, that's how the conversation went down, or at least that's how it went in my head.
	And all the Dems are starting to think, well, hang on, if Joe Biden can't even do a most basic thing as piss money up the wall, that's his bread and butter for us, then, well, what's the point in having him around?
	And, well, from their perspective, obviously reasonable to get rid of him.
	He's deeply unpopular.
	He's old as S... He's largely been ineffective, unless we're counting judges or whatever the hell inside baseball scorecard we're using, and I think he's probably going to get demolished in the midterms.
	Tell us what you really think.
	Said Corbin Trent, co-founder of the Progressives No Excuses Pack, a former communications director for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
	That's what it actually is.
	There you go.
	You have a guy who's literally worked for Cortez for the last four years or whatever, and his opinion is, this dude's old as S, he's unpopular, crap, can't do anything.
	Yeah, but you know if Biden was actually doing everything that this guy wanted him to, that wouldn't matter.
	No, but it's good to see that, well, this sort of dissent is bread and butter for, let's say, AOC and her staffers right now.
	It's obviously the case.
	And then the people who are at least left, or on, you know, Joe, on Bernie Sanders' campaign, are just openly saying it instead.
	Which is that, this is a train wreck.
	I don't want to be associated with this.
	I'm going home.
	I don't blame them.
	I'm going to start making YouTube videos about video games instead.
	I'm going to go back to whining about sexism in video games because this is crap.
	Yeah, go back to being...
	I've even forgotten her name.
	It's been so long.
	Sarkeesian?
	How could I misremember Sarkeesian?
	Such an influence.
	So, quote, people will smell opportunity and DC is filled with people who want to be president.
	You used to work for AOC. I mean, are you saying AOC wants to?
	Just hint, hint?
	Nudge, nudge?
	Just do it already.
	Like, I want to see the run.
	The memes.
	The memes will be spectacular.
	Even if she runs and destroys the country, I mean, at least we'll get to see it.
	So, that'll be fun.
	Get my binoculars out and sit on the coastline as wow.
	What?
	What's going on over there?
	Time to reclaim the colonies.
	Some fireworks going, lads, I think there's time.
	Grab the tea, we're taking it out of the harbour.
	No one are now in office, and none of the top-tier presidential contenders from 2020 is viewed as a serious prospect to take on Biden, however.
	Nor is there any expectation that Senators Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren, both of whom have enjoyed a significant amount of influence in the Biden administration, would primary Biden.
	However...
	There is obviously the case of, well, you don't have to run the two really old people who are just sucking his D every night.
	Instead, you could get some rando to run against him and do it that way, even if you don't want to run any of your big, heavy hot shots.
	I mean, as they say, few seriously think that Ocasio-Cortez would risk a political capital in a long-shot challenge to the president either.
	Yeah, why not?
	I thought you were popular.
	I thought your ideas were popular.
	So if we just pull this random person off the street, they've got a better chance than most of our candidates.
	I'm not even joking.
	That's where this article is going.
	Okay.
	Fair play.
	Here's Tim.
	Vote Tim.
	Vote Mr.
	Spief.
	Vote Mr.
	Spief.
	Instead, liberals believe lesser-known candidates, I told you, are more likely to...
	It's a primary Biden if he seeks a second term, such as former Sanders campaign co-chair Nina Turner.
	This is what I mean by people you haven't heard of, no one's heard of.
	You know, shockingly, I think I have heard of her, and I think she got demolished last time she stood for election, so yeah.
	So 2020 presidential candidate Marine Williamson?
	Marianne Williamson.
	I can't read English.
	He's still with Mr.
	Smith.
	Mr.
	Smith.
	Manning and Williamson.
	What's even a reference to it?
	I don't know.
	I swear it's from a movie, but I swear you've just hallucinated something.
	I watched a good movie at some point in my life.
	I've got a dose of the Bidens.
	Maybe.
	Or millionaire and $18 an hour minimum wage advocate Joe Sandberg.
	Jesus Christ.
	$18 an hour?
	Inflation's already going pretty badly.
	I mean, come on.
	Look, I'm very much for a $50 million wage.
	A $50 million minimum wage?
	A $100 million wage would help American workers.
	I'm telling you, $150 million wage.
	Big number mean better.
	Just make bigger.
	I mean, look, with the way inflation is going in the United States, what is it, like 6.8% or something now?
	Something ridiculous, yeah.
	Yeah, perfectly normal, normal country.
	Quote, yes, but someone like Nina Ternia or, how did you say it?
	Marianne Williamson.
	Miss Williamson, doubt anyone currently elected, said one prominent progressive when asked if someone from the left would run against Biden.
	So again, I mean, this is what I like about this article.
	They've actually done the groundwork of going out and asking all the retarded leftists, what do you think?
	And, well, their opinions...
	They've come out with retarded opinions.
	Well, no, because, I mean, they are, as retarded progressives, one thing, but they are very smart in power politics.
	And I can see them assessing it in this vein.
	And the left is always great at stabbing itself in the back.
	Yeah, it's their favourite activity.
	It's good fun to just infight every day.
	The fact that any primary challenger at all is now openly being discussed demonstrates how disappointed some progressives are about Biden's presidency.
	It's also a reflection of Biden's weakness in the polls and his advanced age.
	Sorry, I like writing that in the quotes there.
	I don't know.
	The same factors that are driving more traditional and moderate Democrats to talk privately about scenarios if Biden doesn't run for re-election as promised.
	This is the weird thing.
	I always thought he never promised this.
	I thought he promised to just do it once and then leave.
	I seem to remember that being a campaign promise.
	I'll run once and then I'll go away forever.
	Yeah, because he was obviously senile.
	Maybe I'm remembering wrong.
	He was obviously someone they just propped up because they thought he stood a good chance against Trump.
	Who else did they have?
	I mean, they were going to run...
	Noted liar, Elizabeth Warren.
	Pocahontas.
	Call me Kamala.
	Or Sanders.
	Another one we're going to win.
	They might be trying to sneak Kamala in.
	Another Joe Biden.
	No, we can't have that conversation, can we?
	Oh yeah, shit.
	Zip our mouths before we are shot.
	Anyway, quote, Again, just all the people who worked for Sanders.
	You know, all the left Democrats who have just been like...
	Yeah, this dude sucks.
	We need to replace him.
	And, well, it's good that they're noticing, finally.
	They weren't for Bernie Sanders.
	I don't know why they didn't notice when he was running that he sucked.
	Just not vote for him.
	Or just, you know, just don't do something stupid.
	But okay, we'll do the stupid thing and then say we're going to fix the stupid thing by doing another stupid thing.
	I mean, this is left-wing politics.
	What do you want?
	I was going to say.
	Weaver argued that a liberal challenge wouldn't be a repudiation of Biden, but rather the result of the Democratic Party moving left.
	Thanks for the admission.
	I love this.
	I do love that they try and treat it like this Democratic Party is already like...
	They always try and treat it like they're already centre-right or something.
	Yeah, and they're just obviously not.
	But also, you must have seen the graphs.
	I mean, Tim Pool is great for this.
	He always demonstrates the graphs of just the changes in opinions of the two parties.
	And the Republican Party has gone further right somewhat.
	That's true.
	In all the graphs, I don't have a hand.
	But the Democratic Party just massively moved to the left.
	And they're always denying it, and it's good to get an admission from Sanders' own campaign people that, yes, they have moved the party massively to the left.
	Thanks for that.
	Tell me more about Trotsky.
	Quote, Cool, cool.
	And if nothing else, a progressive running who gets a lot of support will demonstrate that the ideas of a progressive movement that they embrace are in fact popular.
	They keep trying this.
	I love that we're popular, we swear, but you can never actually get your man in office.
	Do you know what this reminds me of?
	You know that Simpsons episode where they're all sat at the UN and Russia just presses the button and the sign flips and it says USSR? What would it say instead?
	What do you mean?
	Well, it's after the fall of the Soviet Union, so it just says Russia, and then you just press the button, it flips, it says USSR, and it's like, that's right!
	Well, do you not remember there was a Veritas sting on some of Sanders' own people, and they were all, like, raging...
	What was it?
	I think they were Trotskyists.
	That doesn't surprise me at all.
	And Bernie's got books out called stuff like Our Revolution.
	He's not exactly quiet about it.
	But I mean, this is, you know, a lot of political talk is used like that.
	So I've always been a bit sceptical of that accusation.
	I much prefer the Stings where you just get his own people talking about how they're going to kill people in the streets.
	I was like, interesting, tell me more.
	Obviously that sort of stuff can be rhetoric, but I think with the evidence that you're presenting there...
	Yeah, it's foolproof.
	Anyway...
	If a left-wing primary's Biden, Trent predicted that, quote, it will be a bigger primary than people anticipate.
	I think it will be like Jimmy Carter's primary.
	Ted Kennedy, a liberal, won close to a dozen states in the 1980s challenge of Carter, who then went on to lose the re-election.
	When Sanders himself reportedly considered running against then-President Barack Obama ahead of his 2012 re-election campaign, the Obama team was alarmed because, quote, every president who has gotten a real primary has lost the general election.
	They presumably contacted Senator Sanders' team and were like, please, please, wait, wait till next year, and then the next four years, and then the next four years.
	Anyway.
	Biden already looks to be trying to make amends with the left since Machin asked to build back better.
	The president has essentially He extended two major demands from progressive lawmakers and activists.
	He extended the pandemic-related memorandum on student loan payments and recently offered his clearest and most direct support for doing away with the filibuster to push through voting rights legislation.
	Voting rights legislation, which is that everyone should have a right to vote.
	Literally everyone.
	The guy from the other country?
	Go for it.
	Russian tourists.
	Why not?
	Murderers and rapists.
	That baby.
	If you think I'm joking, just check out Wales' situation on voting, which is that foreigners can vote in Welsh elections.
	You think the Dems won't push that far?
	Think again.
	Well done, Tony Blair.
	So, there is the wargaming you can do here as well, which is that the progressive left, as they're sitting around plotting and sharpening their knives, they could decide, well, okay, we could let Biden lose, and then you can claim victory for the left, because if we had run left person, then we would have won.
	Or you can run in the primaries and harm Biden and then he loses, in which point you say that, well, this is a victory for the left because if we had won the primary...
	He was never left in the first place.
	Or you can let Biden win and then it would be a victory for the left because there is no lose for these people because they do not recognize loss.
	These people are so deluded that they think everything is a win ever.
	The always sunny meme.
	See, I play all sides, so I never lose.
	Yes, you can't beat me because I'm retarded.
	Yep.
	They are correct about that assessment.
	And of course, either way, America loses, but whatever.
	So let's move to the next link, which is that British media has also picked up on this obvious infighting because it is becoming so evident.
	As you can see here, the Times document here.
	It was basically the same information, except right at the end, they added something more, which was funny.
	And I thought I'd go down.
	So if you can scroll right to the bottom, please here, John.
	There's a section called "Third of US Back Violence Against Leaders." Jesus Christ!
	Tell me more.
	The figure is higher among Republicans at 40%.
	This is how they frame it.
	And independent voters at 41%.
	But only 23% of Democrats feel that way, according to the Washington Post University of Maryland survey.
	Which I love that independents are the most violent extremist group.
	Those violent centrists.
	Yes, neoliberalism by the shotgun.
	I'm just going to say, summer 2020 showed us how non-violent Democrats are.
	Yeah, there's also just the revealed preferences, which is the, well, multiple terrorist attacks, such as the one on the ICE facility by the Antifa member who was shot to death after firebombing a refugee centre.
	That's right, he's a leftist.
	Firebombing refugee centres, okay.
	That rogue car that went on a rampage a few weeks ago was probably a Republican.
	You have plenty of other such terrorist incidents, or petty terrorist incidents, such as the bombing of the courthouse in Portland that has now been, well, I think he's charged now, the chappy did that.
	Weren't there also attacks on the mayor of Portland's house who was letting it all go down?
	And himself, and everyone else in the neighbourhood, and mostly peaceful, mostly peaceful, mostly peaceful.
	I'm sure we have to say.
	But, anyway.
	Don't live in blue states.
	A majority, 62%, still believe that violence against the government can never be justified, but that number has dropped since the 1990s.
	It's just been getting worse!
	When it was 90% that people thought blowing up the government wasn't a good idea, now it's only 60% that are like, eh, that's not good.
	It's 40% that are like, eh, I don't know, I mean...
	They've only just discovered Guy Fawkes over in America.
	This FBI agent next to me makes a good point.
	Yep.
	And his FBI agent friend.
	He's got a lot of money.
	He's offering me a lot of money and some matches.
	Okay.
	So, I thought we'd also just...
	Okay, this is the...
	Let's say media view or the assessment of the American left wing.
	How's it going?
	Terribly.
	They're all infighting.
	They're probably going to stab each other's backs by the end of today.
	Okay.
	So how does the media view the right wing right now?
	Who are just sitting on a big stack of I told you so and waiting for the midterm so they can go out and do their thing.
	I don't hazard a guess.
	They haven't changed at all.
	Of course they haven't.
	They're exactly like if Donald Trump was in office.
	Go to the next link, please.
	We can do the Guardian reporting on this.
	U.S. could become a right-wing dictatorship by 2030, Canadian professor warns, with an image of Donald Trump with his fist up.
	He's not in office.
	He's gone.
	And they mention in here, quote,"...we mustn't dismiss these possibilities just because they seem ludicrous or too horrible to imagine." Or because they are nonsensical either, I presume.
	I mean, is Trump even going to run in 2024?
	I thought it's kind of up in air at the moment, isn't it?
	You know how dictators usually leave office?
	Oh, when they're democratically elected out?
	Yeah.
	Yeah, I know.
	Happened all the time in the 20th century.
	Yeah, anyway.
	So, moving on.
	Stalin often fought hard for his electoral victories.
	Let's go to the next link, in which we have the Independence View on the right.
	Trump is at war with the rule of law, says Liz Cheney, ahead of Capital Right anniversary.
	Hello, Rando, who isn't even in the Republican Party anymore.
	In the heads of anyone.
	Don't know why anyone's listening to her, because I'm left with media, but that's what the media want to promote.
	Again, just absurdist rhetoric.
	And we have the last one, which is just amazing.
	It's beautiful.
	Every day is January 6th now.
	To you, maybe.
	Oh, we're coming up to the one-year anniversary.
	Are you looking forward to the mountain of editorials like this we're going to be getting?
	I love the whole that he's at war with the rule of law one, though.
	He's playing golf.
	Yeah, mate.
	What are you thinking?
	He's hitting holes in one.
	He's just out there with his little friends all in little pepe faces over here going, I want to play golf.
	Me too.
	Yeah, good friends.
	That's the destruction of the rule of law right there.
	And as they say in here, our political life seems more or less normal these days as the president pardons turkeys and Congress quietly quarrels over spending bills.
	Political life has got to normal, has it?
	Spending bills?
	I'm sorry, but like...
	Multiple trillions of dollars spending bills?
	The US economy is in a point where everyone around the world is worrying, because whatever happens in the US also will happen here.
	And US power is evaporating across the globe.
	If this is the new normal that you wanted, you've got it.
	No one else ever wanted this thing.
	But, yeah, that's the left infighting each other, and the media, they're not changed, they're never going to change, don't ever try and placate to them.
	Smear merchants.
	Let's go to the video comments.
	All right.
	So I ask the question whether it's right for us to do so.
	I think it is immoral.
	Neither the pill nor the taking of the pill can be immoral.
	What people taking the pill do with their lives can lead to immorality.
	If they become promiscuous or advocate undermining the foundation of the family, then that is immoral.
	The pill is a little different to a condom.
	I'll attempt a comparison with thalidomide, banned because it caused terrible birth defects in babies.
	Recent studies show that, in fact, when prescribed properly, it is an effective and safe pain medication.
	The drug is not the problem, but its application.
	I think he was making a more...
	Again, this is a conversation not really between us but between two other people.
	I can't remember the chap who made the original point.
	I think he was making a more argument about the effect of the production of how babies are made and therefore it's worse than the condom because that's just...
	I'm not particularly familiar with that personally.
	I wasn't taking the position anyway, so I don't know why I'm even bringing it up.
	I mean, the most I know about the pill is that a number of women I've known who haven't been having sex have just taken it because apparently it helps with period pains.
	So, painkiller?
	Great.
	He was talking about thlaminobite.
	Oh, I don't know.
	Anyway, let's go to the next one.
	This is a banana.
	Most people open it the wrong way, on that side.
	The right way is to open it on this side.
	You pinch it once, You pinch it twice, and it's already open.
	If a black bit annoys you, you can remove it straight away.
	That is how you open up an R. And then you've got a handle for it as well.
	Cheers!
	Go to the next one!
	Did we ask about bananas?
	Have we been having any in-depth banana discussion while I've been off?
	Return to monkey, I guess.
	This will be very useful during the downfall of civilization.
	Sponsored by big fruit.
	Let's go overthrow Honduras.
	Let's go to the next one.
	Happy New Year, gents.
	And for my New Year's resolution...
	I'm currently at 82 and a half kilos August last year before the big lockdown.
	I was 76.
	My aim is to get back to that weight and sell a ton of books so I can save up a ton of cash and then buy another property.
	Also, really looking forward to collabs with DJ Chai and Tf Allspark and Sophie over in Denmark.
	Really looking forward to those guys.
	It's going to be a good year.
	Hopefully.
	Happy New Year to you as well.
	Thank you very much.
	I am in a similar position weight loss wise.
	Before lockdown I was about 85kg.
	Now I am 100kg.
	I've put a good decent amount of weight on and I also wish to be dropping it.
	So good luck with you there.
	Yeah, I can't really say much else.
	Except I love the little community that's being formed.
	Oh, it's lovely.
	Yeah.
	I mean, we're not involved in that at all.
	We haven't even set up an official Losiers forum or Discord or anything.
	People have just done it themselves, haven't they?
	It's organic.
	That's how you know you're making something that's wholesome.
	But let's get a nice one.
	Tony D and little Joan here.
	I just wanted to say sorry for missing the last couple of videos.
	I fell ill with the koof.
	I won't forgive you.
	But now I've recovered and I'll be making a video about my recovery and various pills and vitamins I took to make that recovery, including following my doctor's advice, which it was to have a heavy protein diet.
	So apparently, Carl, keto saves the day again.
	Yet another cure for the coronavirus.
	Keto.
	At least according to your doctor.
	I'm glad you seem to be feeling better.
	I was also a little bit under the weather with the coup for being young and, I mean, not in the best of shape, as I just said, but relatively okay.
	Like, it was just, for me, a mild cold.
	I don't know what variant.
	Yeah, I don't know what variant you had, though, but glad to see that you're on the mend.
	Yeah, it's always good to see you a little, Joan.
	I don't know when I'm going to get to the US, but when I am, I am going to stop over in New Jersey.
	It'll be good fun.
	Yeah, we'll get there eventually.
	Let's get to the next one.
	A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to the folks at the Lotus Ears.
	And Carl, I have a gift for you.
	It takes place over 10 video comments, so keep an eye out for the next two weeks.
	It's time to make a return to an old, loved subject of the video comments.
	Oh no.
	I think you've just put Carl off of appearing on the podcast for the next two weeks.
	Taking four more weeks holiday, so sorry folks.
	I don't know.
	Carl's decided to pull a full kneel and quit.
	To be honest, that doesn't really sound like a good idea.
	We have some problems with this in the past, but Carl's not on every day.
	He takes days off to do other stuff to produce things, so I would rather it wasn't a running thing for like ten weeks, because I feel like it's going to become a huge pain.
	Yeah, it's kind of different when you're doing video comments that are responses to other video comments, because at least whoever's watching has the context, I presume.
	It's strange, but...
	Yeah, it's a bit confusing for us, but you're having a lovely chat.
	But if you aim specifically at Carl, he's not going to be on every day.
	He may not watch all of the video comments afterwards either.
	Especially if they're about anime, as the implication was, he'll avoid them like the plague.
	Based.
	Go to the next one.
	Hey fellas, it's been a long time since I've actually made a video comment, but being the new year, I thought I'd drop a line quickly to you all.
	G'day everyone in the Lotus Eaters anyway.
	And I've got a recommendation for you with regards to a sci-fi series.
	I'm curious as to whether or not you know much about Isaac Asimov's Foundation series and the science that is used to predict the future far ahead psychohistory and what you think about it.
	It rings a bell.
	Isaac Asimov's Foundations is what was the source material for the film iRobot.
	He wrote iRobot.
	I've not watched the film in years.
	I do actually own the Complete Robot, which I believe is part of the Foundation series.
	I've just not got round to reading it yet.
	So if I do, it'd be interesting to discuss with somebody, because I've heard that they set out the, I think, three laws of robotics, talking about artificial intelligence, which is...
	Kind of relevant to modern discussions on the subject, but I would need to read it to go into any more detail.
	Anyway, no, it's good to see you again.
	I always get a bit, I don't know, almost nostalgic when we see people we haven't seen in a long time.
	I always wonder where some of the people are and how they're doing.
	Like Cedric Purcell, who had to leave because he couldn't afford it.
	Oh, that's true.
	Or the dog lady, the dog groomer.
	She used to groom dogs for us on stream.
	It was just fun to watch.
	I think I saw a few of them when I started, maybe.
	I've obviously not been around as long as you have, but it's nice to see familiar faces.
	Yeah.
	Anyway, we're out of video comments.
	Let's go to the written comments on the site.
	So, the Minikist Monikist says, with YouTube yeeting the interview clips and Google manipulating search results already...
	Oh crap, there's one thing I forgot to include.
	I never seen that yesterday.
	Yeah, if you Googled, what was it, mass psychosis...
	Mass formation psychosis.
	Mass formation psychosis.
	There was a period in which, if you Googled it, Google would just come up with a response which is, oops, looks like the results are being changed.
	Oh, really?
	The results were being changed currently, so you weren't allowed to see what came up.
	We've got our counter-propagandists on the job, so watch this space.
	You can see John's just got it up on the screen.
	We've got Forbes articles, and there's all of a sudden very recent articles talking about it, presumably trying to discredit the idea.
	There must be a Wayback Machine version of it.
	I'm sure someone's done it.
	Sorry, I interrupted his comment there.
	I fear Dr.
	Malone's words won't reach those who need to hear them.
	Most still, what an excellent podcast that was.
	Yeah, I mean, this is one of the disappointing but kind of cool things about being the kind of people...
	Oh, here's the image.
	Yeah, here we go.
	It looks like these results are changing quickly.
	So the kind of people who do pay attention to all this and everyone watching is definitely one of those people...
	It's kind of cool knowing that you get this sort of information that millions upon millions of normies don't even know what's going on.
	These wars, these info wars, if you want a term for it.
	It's really weird interacting with those sorts of people.
	As I was doing over the Christmas period, who I don't...
	Because obviously I moved away from everyone and go back and see my family and I interact with them.
	So many people just have no idea about any of it.
	So many people are still under the assumption that...
	If you have the vaccine, then it works like previous vaccines, and it just means your blanket statement cannot get it.
	I know.
	It's unbelievable how many people believe such things.
	And then you remember, oh wait, most of it's censored.
	Yeah, and most people aren't too busy working their jobs to look into it to the same level of detail that we do.
	And then there are some people who just seem to have completely taken the blue pill when it comes to stuff like Joe Rogan, who still think that he's some kind of right-wing reactionary rather than...
	God, I wish.
	I know, I know, but it's good that we have someone on the centre-left who's more interested in truth than any sort of ideological...
	I don't know if we'd even call him Santa Left.
	I just think he's pretty Santa.
	Most of his conversations are just like, so have you seen this monkey that did this?
	Yeah.
	Monkeys are kind of weird, man, aren't they?
	Yeah.
	I mean, I love them.
	Who can't?
	But then I interact with people who are like, oh, I know somebody who watches the Joe Rogan podcast.
	That's a bit of a red flag.
	And I'm just like, I listen to the Joe Rogan podcast.
	Millions of others do.
	Yes, hundreds of millions of people.
	I mean, that's the one good thing about even with the Google manipulating search results, Joe Rogan is such a big platform in and of himself that that will be enough to get some publicity out there.
	It's why they hated PewDiePie as well, because PewDiePie was there to have fun.
	Oh, yeah.
	If he saw something that was true, he'd go for it.
	And...
	This is why I think YouTube and Google have a particular hatred of him.
	Not just because he might have caused them bad press with a few jokes that they don't like, but rather that he just wouldn't become a progressive stooge for something that was obviously nonsense.
	Yeah, and thankfully I check in with PewDiePie every so often, he's still pretty much just doing him.
	Yeah, which is nice.
	so jake silver says mass formation psychosis even trended here in canada clearly the robert malone podcast was so affected that they had to ban it even if it didn't at all question the veracity of the vaccine just the insane policy of administrating and mandating it absolutely yep similarly with the mcculler interview it was a similar discussion of well you know vaccine is however so much effective it's just the fact that uh when he was involved in the actual handling of the response it was more a question of okay
	why aren't we treating it Why are we just waiting for the vaccine more than anything?
	Why aren't we trying to figure out what can mitigate the symptoms once you're already ill with it?
	Because vaccines are only preventative.
	Conversations that all would have been allowed up until current year.
	Exactly.
	And now they're all banned forever.
	Omar Awad says that face when you've banned all your ideological opposition from every platform that exists save one, so cancel culture isn't real because you weren't able to finish the job.
	I know he's written something which has been crossed out because I'm not allowed to say that.
	Yep.
	But we hear this a lot from Ash Sharkers of the world who are like, yeah, well, you can still think in your own heads.
	Cancel culture's just a myth.
	Well, for now.
	For now you can think.
	It's essentially how the argument goes, and if we're not literal 1984, where thought crime exists and we can detect it, you're still a free man.
	Similar to what you're mentioning there, I saw Lawrence Fox posted on Twitter saying, like, Twitter's a cesspit, everybody get over to Getter.
	And there were a few of those know-it-all snobby comments, because of course Lawrence Fox is the kind who attracts reply guys, going like, and yet you post this on Twitter.
	Hmm, interesting.
	Interesting.
	Yes, I also write it on this bit of paper.
	Aha!
	I'm still a free man, I can write on the bit of paper.
	Stupid.
	It's ridiculous.
	Charlie the Beagle says, So Joe and a lot of people left Twitter because of the immense censorship they faced, yet they are still totally on a platform and not a publisher, we swear.
	How are the Republicans still so blind to this?
	Yeah, this is the sort of...
	I've seen some evidence of this, and you can see it again with Gab, absolutely, which is that there is bias, of course, in how these platforms are run.
	And Gab, you know, Andrew Torber, is very open about it.
	He's like, nope, family-friendly, also very Christian, deus fault, deus fault.
	And it's his prerogative, it's his platform.
	And he's open and front about that, at least, unlike Twitter, who try and pretend and YouTube, which is, you know...
	A sight-saving grace, but it fundamentally comes down to the fact that I don't think these two political camps can coexist online.
	Wherever they're actually made to be put together, they end up separating.
	So maybe this is just the natural evolution of how the technology functions in regards to humans.
	Social media encourages the more radical and extreme movements within any sort of political faction to be the ones who shout the loudest and get the most publicity.
	But also his point about Twitter being clearly a publisher.
	I mean, it makes sense to me.
	You don't have to preach into the choir, mate.
	Frankly.
	But I appreciate the comment.
	I don't know what's going on with Minds, so I won't speak to that because I just don't know.
	Go check it out yourselves.
	On the issue of places becoming an echo chamber, we just had this discussion.
	It is sad, but it just seems to be...
	An inevitability of that mode of communication.
	Yeah, how politics and this technology has interacted has been to distance themselves more and more.
	I think back to Carl's early videos when you had the days of bedroom feminist replies and reply reply videos.
	It was so innocent, naive back then.
	But the replies took place, and the reply took place.
	These days, most leftist YouTubers, particularly, won't even make a response to someone who's clearly demolished all their points or anything of the sort.
	They just move on.
	They'll ignore it, or at most, make a snide comment about it on Twitter.
	And it's people who clearly have more time than sense.
	They don't have to be producing content every day.
	They don't have to be making on Twitter half their life, so clearly they've got a lot of time.
	It's the type of people like an Ethan Klein nowadays.
	Sure, but even the interaction, I think, is gone.
	It's not there anymore.
	I find it sad, but there's what it is.
	Student of history, direct actions, suddenly a bad thing.
	LOL, someone told BLM and Antifa quick.
	I don't get what that's...
	I think in regards to the Alpha Men.
	Oh, the Alpha Men, right.
	The Alpha Men preparing for direct action, which is bad, but BLM and Antifa doing the same thing.
	Sorry, no, no, no.
	When Alpha Men do it, it's violent terrorism.
	Oh, yes.
	When BLM do it, it's direct action.
	Well, it's that obviously toxic right-wing toughness.
	I don't even know who the hell they are, but it's just ridiculous.
	And Antifa can't be accused of toughness, that's for sure.
	Ah, we'll get into it.
	North Antonio Knight says, with Twitter pushing people onto Getter, how long before Getter suffers a cyber attack?
	In quotes, I just hope they've taken enough steps that they don't follow Parler.
	That is the worry.
	We'll see.
	You want to read the Tony Blair?
	Yes.
	Kevin Fox says, Knight Hoods, like most awards these days, are political and not merit-based.
	Look at the winner of the Sports Personality of the Year in the USA. That gymnast who dropped out because her feelings went, oh god, I remember that actually.
	She was just sort of like, well, I can't deal with this anymore.
	And then they're like, congratulations, Sportswoman of the Year.
	Well done.
	Lindsay Ellis?
	Maybe.
	To give Blair and that two-faced Pratt of an F1 driver who makes his every one, every appearance, a political statement.
	I don't know who he's referring to there, is it?
	Lewis Hamilton, probably?
	Yeah, yeah.
	That's true.
	I think he got a knighthood on some crap too.
	Oh god, he did, didn't he?
	Yeah, no, I completely agree.
	It's political, not merit-based.
	I mean, all you need to do is look at the actual requirements that I listed in there, like changing the community and stuff like that, and then just go, well, none of these people actually fit any of this.
	And they still get the knighthood anyway.
	Justin B says, I actually know more people that like Mrs.
	Brown's boys than Tony Blair.
	Wow, the...
	I only know one person who likes Mrs.
	Brown's boys.
	I think it is quite an apt comparison because that show carried on for years and I never watched it and when I did it was horribly cringe-inducing.
	Did you ever subject yourself to it?
	I watched it twice and just thought, what the hell is this?
	I just moved on with my life.
	Yeah, that's fair.
	Henry Ashman says the more comes out about the UK COVID response, the more you could spin it as a eugenics programme, killing disabled kids banning reproduction for single people unless they work for the government slash SAGE, judging by their actions.
	Yeah, basically, I agree there.
	Henry Ashman says, That's actually a really good idea.
	Bo really hates Tony Blair.
	I mean, I would pay to see that.
	I think we absolutely should.
	Because obviously, as you've pointed out, Iraq and Afghanistan are the big ones that everybody points to and everybody can recognize, well, yeah, that was a dumb decision.
	But most people don't consider mass immigration.
	Most people don't consider Communications Act and all that sort of stuff.
	So it'd be good to just have a nice source for everything.
	There is a funnier one on the issue of censorship.
	I mean, you're hitting on the Communications Act, so I'll mention it.
	Which is that the Blair administration, I think they either passed or were about to pass, a law which criminalised offending someone?
	I can think it was...
	No, insulting.
	So, this was Section 5 they brought in.
	Mr.
	Bean had to come out of retirement to campaign against this.
	Oh, is this where...
	You've seen his speech.
	Yeah, Rowan Atkinson was saying, well, this is just absolutely ridiculous.
	What are you even doing?
	Yeah, I can't remember.
	I think it might be part of the speech, or a speech out of it, where he mentions the fact that whilst it was going on, he was actually invited to Downing Street to discuss with the cabinet about this, because, frankly, they all liked Mr.
	Bean and wanted to meet him.
	Well, yeah, I'd want to meet Rowan.
	So they were just like, okay, we'll invite you to discuss the issue.
	And then he sat down with them, and they were like, oh, no, no, no, no, we get what you're doing, very funny, you know, Mr.
	Bean, all that.
	We're talking about serious stuff.
	He was like, well, who decides?
	Yeah.
	You know, certain types of jokes that may cause harm or so forth.
	And he's like, that's sort of the point, you idiots!
	I'm pretty sure Blackadder has plenty of jokes that you wouldn't be able to get away with nowadays.
	Yeah, and it's quite funny how, when you learn how...
	These things work.
	You think it's all very professional.
	Everyone's humans.
	It's just a bunch of monkey guys in suits discussing the law.
	And there's a point at which it's obvious that Mr.
	Bean essentially sat in a room with a bunch of cabinet ministers and told them that they don't know anything.
	And they, all out of embarrassment, went, yes, you're right.
	When you're made full of...
	They really wanted Mr.
	Bean to like them.
	Wow, getting dunked on by Mr Bean.
	I don't know if you have the option.
	What an honour.
	No, I'm just talking about it.
	Yeah, just talking about it.
	Check that out in your own time.
	Harry G-Man says, Tony Blair was a vanguardist with a European managerial mentality.
	He flew in complete opposition to the political traditions of this country.
	I agree he has what Carl would probably describe as the continental philosophy of politics, where the government just entitles you things rather than, well, the government just protects the foundations upon which people can have free interactions with one another.
	And in researching it, there were quite a few quotes that I found of Tony Blair himself just saying, yes, we're doing this for the cause of social justice.
	And that really says all it needs to on that subject.
	Freeborn JJHW says the more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the state.
	Tacitus?
	I would agree there.
	Henry Ashman, the only saving grace is knighthoods can be revoked in light of new information.
	Admittedly, the delay in granting him this makes it less likely, but don't forget it used to be Sir Jimmy Savile.
	That's a good point, but I'm pretty sure...
	At least 99% of the information needed to revoke a Tony Blair knighthood is already well out there in the public.
	So the likelihood of it being revoked outside of that change petition actually accomplishing something is unlikely, sadly.
	Omar Awad said, I think the same people that think more people getting degrees is indisputably a good thing are the same people that think flooding the market with infinite printed money doesn't drive inflation.
	More of a thing makes it worth less.
	Too much of it makes it worthless.
	This is why you get hundreds of people getting degrees where the only direction that you can go in once you've got the degree is just go back into academia and teach it.
	I did forget.
	There is one aspect to that, which is it was directly at the cost of trades.
	So he wanted the objective of 50% of all young people should have degrees by X year.
	That sounds such an arbitrary number as well.
	We will move people out of doing trades into getting degrees.
	Out of productive and useful careers into gender studies.
	Well, this isn't to say that there aren't useful degrees, but it's just that...
	When you're not even taking people who don't have any formal education or something like that, you could argue, okay, these people could use some more education or trade training.
	People with no prospects at all.
	When you're taking people out of trade to do the degrees just so you can reach your arbitrary number...
	And the likelihood as well...
	You're a madman.
	In that circumstance, you're probably impoverishing those people unless they go on to do a very useful degree, because most people getting degrees are probably going to end up in some low-level office job that's not going to pay much, whereas most of the wealthier people I know are from the trades and the working classes because they earn quite a bit of money through unions and wages like that.
	I want to be the union boss.
	Yeah, there you go.
	XYNZ says, one envious advantage of the US system are ballot measures.
	The constituency can create law through popular vote, so perhaps our US brethren should consider getting a measure on their respective states' ballots where their representatives and senators must vote no on any federal bill where they are not given appropriate time to review any bill to be voted on.
	So no bills can be rammed through under cover of darkness with no scrutiny.
	Just a thought, guys.
	There was one Republican lawmaker back in the Jon Stewart era that issued a statement that he wanted no bill in the House to be longer than one page.
	Oh, I think that was Ron Paul.
	No, I think it was someone else.
	I'm almost certain that was Ron Paul.
	But I remember him being ruthlessly mocked by Jon Stewart and other people at the time being like, I hate reading!
	And I was like, no, but when you've got 700 pages...
	Come on.
	He kind of would, though.
	Yeah.
	I don't think he's wrong.
	I mean, everyone thought this was an impossible task as well.
	Oh, no, it has to be this long because the world's very complex these days.
	How else are we going to sneak all of our sneak stuff in there?
	Even steal my position, which is, oh, the world's more complex these days.
	We need piles and piles of crap.
	And when the Trump administration came in, as I mentioned before...
	Trump said, okay, for every three new rules you want to bring in, you have to get rid of six, or whatever the ratio was.
	And he did do that.
	That is one of his huge achievements of his four years in office that no one really talks about, which is that for every piece of legislation...
	I've never heard it before, so you'll have to send me through some stuff regarding that.
	A huge amount of legislation had to be removed, and no one had done that before, and it was obviously possible because he did it.
	Well, excellent.
	You're just unclogging stuff at that point, to be perfectly honest, because as we've said, the amount of red tape that people get jammed up in is ridiculous.
	You ever seen John Stossel do a series on US tax law?
	No, I've not.
	I think he rented all of the pages of US tax law just for a visual demonstration.
	It's just a huge pile of crap.
	I bet.
	It's incredible.
	Northamtonian Knight says, "I think we can now categorically call it the dishonorous system.
	The definition of honour no longer applies to it.
	Based, and I agree.
	Capstacher says the knighthood of Tony Blair may be evidence that the Queen really is dead and William's in power.
	My belief is that they are waiting until the Jubilee to announce her death." So we've got a Weekend at Burnies situation is what you're saying there.
	They've just propped her up.
	They've got a stick off-screen moving her mouth up and down, so it looks like she's talking.
	I hope she's alright.
	I hope she's alright as well.
	But anyway, on to the Biden comments.
	Captain Charlie the Beagle says, Do you think the Dems will try new Labour tactics of telling people we'll only put forward people that are competent from now on?
	No.
	I don't even think they're going to make that campaign pledge.
	And where are they going to find all these competent Democrats?
	Not even competent though, I love that Labour had to say normal.
	We're all a bunch of freaks and we admit it, okay?
	They didn't even have to say, okay, we're just Jill down the pub or something.
	No, no, no.
	We are Jill the Freak down the pub.
	Yeah, we're the person you don't want to interact with.
	Not reading that name.
	You get what you pay for.
	Enjoy the buyer's remorse.
	Lemming leftoids.
	Yeah, but I mean, they're lemming leftoid, so what are you going to do?
	Henry Ashman, other than old as S, that to Dem just described Florida refugee AOC. Good point.
	That's a nice rhyme to it, too.
	Duffy B, to be fair, the Democrats are only interested in violence against minority-owned businesses and dumpsters.
	Yes, that is where they generate their...
	That's where they focus their energy.
	Have you seen the clip?
	Which clip?
	There's an Antifa clip in which there's a public bin and they're all kicking the public bin.
	Why?
	To end fascism.
	It's probably their bed later on that day.
	But they're all running around in a big circle and all of them are kicking it like, yeah, down with bins.
	Yeah.
	I'm tired of sleeping in them.
	Chris Wolfe says, you can't beat me because I'm retarded.
	So perfectly describes our situation, Callum.
	Don't beat them, they are special.
	I wasn't, but I'm going to give them a treat to make up for it.
	Good, now I'm the special one.
	I get a treat and I've beaten you.
	Okay.
	I'm not opposed to viewing lemming leftoids as special needs kids.
	I mean, they're so eager to put neurodivergent in their Twitter handles, so...
	Treat them as such!
	You're so right.
	I can't remember...
	What was it?
	We've had this happen twice.
	It happened at Labour conference where they were describing themselves as all neurodivergent.
	And then that BLM Barbados thing, one of the speakers was describing the whole movement as neurodivergent as well.
	I was like...
	Are you actually just calling yourselves retarded on stage?
	Yeah, they take pride in it, man.
	And everyone clapped!
	Both times!
	I think we're underestimating the leftist frame of mind, which is that if you are retarded, you get a weird level of social privilege as a result of it.
	No, seriously, I saw people...
	The first retarded senator.
	Clap, clap, clap, clap, clap.
	I saw people over Christmas describing people that they knew who were so eager to self-diagnose themselves.
	Oh, I'm neurodivergent, I have anxiety and bipolar disorder, I've got all of these things.
	It's just like, no, you're just making excuses for yourself.
	No, but even if they're all real, it's like...
	Yes, dear.
	And those are bad.
	Yes.
	Anyway, Jussie Soapden says, how weak are the Democrats if an ex-president that was voted out, Keck, and is banned from the mainstream media and social media is a severe threat to them, or more precisely, their democracy?
	We will not answer that question.
	We can't talk about it, though, can we?
	Henry Ashman, according to Canadian standards, Bernie Sanders would be a right-wing dictator.
	Certainly would.
	Certainly enjoyed his time in Soviet Union.
	We had a lot to learn from them.
	Did he ever go to Cuba?
	I don't know.
	I know he did a lot of communication with the Soviets.
	I wouldn't be surprised if he went over to Cuba and had some fond memories of time spent with Fidel Castro.
	He meant a seat to Shakur or whatever and was just like, I love your work.
	Yeah, congratulations.
	Hammurabi VI says, any chance we could take a special look at the endless failings of President Dementia?
	Catastric first year.
	I was thinking about doing something like that, actually.
	A retrospective on his first year in office.
	These are always things you try and keep in mind, but you never keep the document up to date because you forget about it.
	And there's just so much with Biden.
	Yeah.
	It's not a bad idea, Hammurabi.
	And then, once again, the one-year anniversary of Jan 6th coming up.
	Ignacio says, seeing as you guys deeply dislike devolved parliaments and they appear to be a failure feeding into separatist regionalist movements, at least it looks like that to me as a Spaniard, as we have very similar problems.
	What solution would you propose to manage a country with several distinct regions with their own cultures?
	So, it depends on the circumstances, of course.
	I mean, there isn't some flat rule for all countries.
	The only thing I'm reminded of in the case of Spain...
	I watched a movie recently, maybe this guy knows it, which is...
	What was it?
	While at War, and it's how Franco came to power.
	And there's, of course, the whole Francoist perception on devolved parliaments, or minorities in general, which is...
	new.
	So...
	There's some more sensibilities to be had in Spain.
	We never did that to the Scots, as in shooting anyone who just was different or spoke the wrong language.
	I had a Catalan friend in university, who I hope as well, I don't know if he's watching, maybe he is, and he used to tell me about some of the crap his family had to deal with under Franco, so I don't want to have any blatant standards for what to do with these things, because the histories are so different.
	Yeah, it's difficult to come up with a blanket solution, that's for sure.
	With the UK, it's just so evident that we shouldn't have devolved parliaments.
	Yeah.
	Because we have a parliament for the United Kingdom, it's called Westminster, has its failings, has its benefits.
	The devolved parliaments are crap.
	We got along without them for so long...
	They don't really provide much benefit at all, except showing us how bad the SNP can F up Scotland.
	And that's the thing, look at what's happened since they have been around.
	What a good job they've done.
	The British standard seems to be that either you're with us or you're independent.
	It's kind of that.
	Yeah, sounds alright.
	At least when it comes to the UK. We are a complex relationship with everything else, of course.
	But I don't want to say anything with regards to Spain, because...
	Different history.
	We'll leave it at that.
	I don't know what else to say.
	I don't know if I'm going to get into it.
	And there's the one last thing here saying any New Year's resolutions for us.
	I haven't got any.
	What about you?
	Be less fat.
	There you go.
	That's a good message to end on.
	Yep.
	Be less fat, everybody.
	And Happy New Year!
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